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Civil and commercial mediation - 03.06.2011
Last May on the 21st has expired the time-limit indicated by the EU to the Member States to implement the Directive 2008/52/EC on the mediation in civil and commercial matters.
The goal of the Directive is to simplify and get better for the parties the access to justice, to deflate the judicial workload of the courts, providing consequently alternative methods of settling disputes. The Czech Republic is in a little late with respect to the deadline provided for by the EU, since it has not implemented the Community Directive yet. At the moment, a legislative proposal is in course of studying. Instead, Italy has implemented the Directive in 2010. Moreover, from the last March 2011 on the 21st the conciliation attempt in civil and commercial matters has become compulsory. This matter has generated a lot of debates and it is still now generating them.